Category: Sysadmin

The last update of cPanel 62 (build 17) for some reason disappeared with Awstats in a few servers I managed. Luckily, cPanel provides their own RPM of Awstats, so with a few commands you can have Awstats working again:

If you are not running as root, use “sudo” before the commands. That’s all.

Too big, too late. picture by Peter HoeyI would never allow users to connect directly to a cloud server, since cloud servers from good providers such as AWS or Google, do not come with DDoS Protection. So, I have to build a protection.
Sometime ago I read a decent review about “DDoS Protected VPS Providers” on LowEndTalk (really, on LET):

Recently I had a problem with a customer trying to remove a addon domain on cPanel. Every time he tries to remove, he got different error messages, like “subdomain ‘shop.example.com’ does not exist for user ‘client’”.

Since cPanel couldn’t do it by itself, I went to the documentation to find where the user configurations are located. According to the documentation, the files are store in /var/cpanel.